Tempos of Time

Michael at Boot Sale Sounds found an EP:" ... A soundscape of the last century starting with the clip clop of a horse drawn cab and ending with the bleep bleep of Sputnik. In between the voices of Churchill, Hitler, Marie Lloyd, Curuso, Gracie Fields and George Formby to name but a few...."

Experience Tempos of Time!



Side 1

Yuri Suzuki's JellyFish Theremin and other deightful inventions

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The JellyFish Theremin:"The movement of Jellyfish controls the sound, air- conditioning, the visual image and lighting.
Water is the element that possesses the most relaxing characteristics for human beings.
Jellyfish are the closest living thing to water that can be found on Earth. ..."



White Noise Machine:"This machine can calculate the quantity of street noise, and then generate the same amount of white noise.
The ambient noise can be drowned by white noise."

Yuri Suzuki
(via Sound Scavangers)

Fsssst Booing!

I'm not sure if I put enough "s"'s or "o"'s but I can't get this song of out my head!

Again, the quality's not great, but here's another clip of "Fssst Booing." More!

The Sound of Sounds

A Basement of Curiosities brings us The Sound of Sounds, a stereo test/ sound effects record.


Hogs Slaughtered

Thunder and Train Whistles and Hot Bagels

This is my dreamy album of the week...it's thunderstorms backing dorky easy listening songs with titles like "Fire Island" and "Hot Bagels". And one is song played by a train whistle. I cannot recommend this fine album enough. Get it here and learn more about the musician behind the album here.

Dreams

Delia Derbyshire - Dreams (1964) " ... a collage of people describing their dreams, set to a background of electronic sound. Dreams is a collection of spliced/reassembled interviews with people describing their dreams, particularly recurring elements. The program of sounds and voices attempts to represent, in five movements, some sensations of dreaming: running away, falling, landscape, underwater, and colour. ...", at Ubu Web Sound of course.


Land

Parlor Games for Sound Freaks

The early days of sound manipulation was a complicated business, involving the use of multiple magnetic tape machines, and the assistance of professional (and probably obsessive) sound engineers. Jim Fassett's Strange To Your Ears explains the process in exhaustive depth, then provides a group of transformed sounds for you to try to guess the source. At least it's probably a great way to get rid of unwanted guests who have overstayed their welcome....

After five years (2)

("So, what has become of DJ Harsman?")

Happy birthday, WMRecordings! Congratulations Marco Kalnenek!

Time flies now, doesn't it? I greatly admire what Marco has achieved in these 5 years. The extremely divers and eclectic collection of fine music that he has made available online, presented with a lot of care and much respect for the music and artists, is priceless in every possible sense of the word. Priceless as in 'treasure', as much as priceless as in 'free' ... 100 x downloads x free x albums ...

Respect!

Every reason therefore also for me to be proud: in the guise of DJ Harsman I contributed to the label's very first release, on november 7th 2004. That was Water,Wind, Sails, compiled by Splogman as part of his 52 Weeks project. On it you will find my Oerdvlieg, played with the 'Geluideiland': an interactive soundmap of the Dutch island of Ameland that DJ Harsman composed when he roamed the island in may 2003.

Much has happened since.

And these very days I have a fine 5 year celebration lined up myself! For on october 7th 2004, just a little before Marco kicked off WMRecordings, in front of the Amsterdam RAI building I launched Raudio, which over the years has become a collection of 24/7 soundart and experimental one pure sound thing audio webstreams, built form several hundreds of hours of pure sound.

To celebrate Raudio's lustrum, we made RAUDIO IIIII: a free iPhone and iPod Touch application that will bring all this streaming sound to the inside of your pocket or to the palm of your hand.

RAUDIO IIIII will allow you to tune into each one of Raudio's twenty 24/7 audio web streams. Do it whenever you feel like, and do it wherever you are (povided within the reach of a 3G network or a Wifi connexion.) The collection includes - just to name two - the amazing 9 Beet Stretch (a recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony slowed down - with pitch correction! - to play for 24 hours ...), and Het GesPreK 1982-2005, based upon a cut-up of a series of life musical conservations between 12 musicians, originally recorded in the Amsterdam Paradiso in 1982.

It is at this very same spot, in Paradiso's "Kleine Zaal", that on friday november 13th we will officially present our application, with a little festive speech, and performances by the ookoi and special guest Peter Zegveld. (The party starts at 17h, please do come, grab the app and join the fun!)

Meanwhile, rather than roaming wadden islands, DJ Harsman these days is roaming our cities, picking up audio tape debris from the streets and from bushes for his Found Tapes Exhibition.
He is also writing a book on the noble art of foundtaping, which should be printed and available for your reading pleasure as of very early 2010. It will be partly written in english, but its main language is dutch, like is its title: "Alle Geluid Van De Wereld" ... Other kettles on the cooker for the near future include a curatorial project around Penelope Audela's collection of a boggling 144.567 audio cassette tapes. (Read some first reports on this 'monstrosity' here and here.)

Last but not least: let me finally start making the album for WMRecordings that I always have wanted to make but for some reason never got round to ....

Harold Schellinx - Paris, november 10th 2009

[ harsmedia.com ]

Lamination is completely participatory and accessible to everyone.

"Lamination Ritual celebrates the transformation of the mundane into the realms of OFFICIALDOM, of ordinary into extraordinary. Lamination is completely participatory and accessible to everyone. Lamination is versatile. It can be an object of utility or whimsical extravagance. It can warm the body and open the mind. Lamination preserves, brightens and protects indiscriminately. Lamination counters our increasingly fast paced world by virtually slowing down the entropy process."

From a grant from John Cage, thrill to the Sounds of a Lamination machine on Boot Sale Sounds. And if changes you life spiritually, you can possibly one day become a deacon at The Ministry of Lamination.

ookoi@E@rport

RAUDIO directs ookoi@E@rport, a live & streaming audio/video extravaganza from 12 until 17 pm, on saturday january 31st, 2009 . With live audio contributions from the ookoi, Tim Benjamin, Cécile Zylberajch, Aris Baymzter and more; streaming audio contributions from Lausanne, Berlin, Paris and elsewhere; video HD projections including the premiere of 'Icarus', from Dick Tuinder's "Winterland" ...

www.myspace.com/ookoi
raudio.nl

Wolf Talk

"This recording consists of sounds of the wolves mixed with bird calls and water sounds. ..."
A Closet of Curiosities gives us Wolf Talk

"Part 1: You'll hear the calls and howls of wolves and the sounds of the following guest speakers: spring peepers, wood frogs, crow, barred owl, red-winged blackbirds, blue jay, chickadees, nuthatches, and one great horned owl."
Boomp3.com
That's the G-R-E-A-T-E-S-T horned owl I ever heard recorded!!!
The guest stars here make a superb backing band with a great natural back-to-the-roots kind of sound. And the main attraction here - the wolves - are really down with it. They've got the blues, alright! And like all great blues singers they're not show-offs. This is the real deal.
It's truly a wild and animalistic performance altogether.

What kind of worries me is that their follow-up has been put on delay, but the title has already been leaked to the press: North Korean Democracy.

Open Sound New Orleans

Boomp3.com

A Collaborative Soundmap of the City:

"New Orleans' music is world-renowned. But what about the distinct sound environment we enjoy (and cringe from) every day? The noises, the voices, the everyday sounds.... Have you tuned out the jackhammers next door, the sirens at night, your neighbor's constant humming, the squeaky gate?"

http://opensoundneworleans.com/

Deep Voices: The Second Whale Record

If we can have Songs of the Mule - we sure can have songs by Humpback Whales!

" ... One of the fascinating things mentioned by the liner notes is that humpback whales sing a different song every year and that they are the only animals to do so.

Note: A high-end audio system will be necessary to hear "Blues: Deep Voices" as the sounds recorded are too low to be heard normally which will explain why it seems that there is no sound on that track. ..."
boomp3.com
Deep Voices: The Second Whale Record is available thanks to A Closet of Curiosities.

Diktat

The Diktat Quartet:

Emmanuel Rébus, Rinus van Alebeek, Harold Schellinx (dictaphones), Jean Bordé (double bass)

The band's website

The band's myspace url


Diktat in Breda (NL) - september 29 2007
The last weekend of september, Diktat performed at the BUTFF festival in Electron in Breda (the Netherlands). There's a whole lot more to read about this in 'De Afgrond', where Rinus van Alebeek reports in dutch (Peperkoek en Homolol, and in the 'SoundBlog', where HarS reports in english (Dutch Angle).

Also, here's Rébus' video report, with sound and vision ...

The Art Of The Rant

Katya, the oddio witch has launched a new project:
"This is a spoken word project in the grand tradition of ranting, raving lunatics, like those who created the 208 versions of Todd Colby's "Cake". Colby went off in a spoken piece proclaiming his unhinged love for cake, and WFMU DJ Kenny G encouraged listeners to deliver the piece in their own interpretations.
In a drunken haze, the owner and manager of PCL Link Dump [Well, I guess that could be me she's referring to...] wandered off on a little rant about accuracy and aspiring to be correct. Following in the tradition of good rant interpretation, it was immediately recorded by some fans. The project was then opened up to the world, including you, yes you! Let off a little steam, go crazy and perform your own audio interpretation of the rant."
You Need To Get Things Right - The Art Of The Rant:
Project Statement, Audio Submissions

Note: Read the original post, here at PCL, that started all this overwhelmingly fun nonsense.

The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra

The Vegetable Orchestra performs music solely on instruments made of vegetables. Using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini-vibrators, cucumberophones and celery bongos, the orchestra creates its own extraordinary and vegetabile sound universe. The ensemble overcomes preserved and marinated sound conceptions or tirelessly re-stewed listening habits, putting its focus on expanding the variety of vegetable instruments, developing novel musical ideas and exploring fresh vegetable sound gardens.

All avant-garde, all the time

"Listen to a 24-hour continuous stream from UbuWeb's MP3 archives. All avant-garde, all the time. ..."
UbuWeb Radio

The Sounds of Intermission

Why would you wear a wire to make illegal concert recordings, and turn the tape ON at the beginning of intermission? For Seattle sound artist Christopher DeLaurenti, the real concert begins when the applause from the first act dies down. This is almost the only time you'll ever hear classical performers improvising together, practicing snippets of the upcoming performance to limber up in anticipation of the baton's downbeat.

The CD is “Favorite Intermissions: Music Before and Between Beethoven, Stravinsky, Holst” from Manhattan's GD Stereo label. The cover of the CD is a delightfully convincing ripoff of the Deutsche Grammophon album cover graphics.

The audio for Christmas is served

Hi folks.

During the last 3 weeks I have been monitoring the web for Christmas audio. The result is the two permanent, mp3 filled socks (or at least the reindeer links will take you to them) you find in this post.
Thanks to all the blogs and sites out there sharing the christmas spirit.
And a specially warm Christmas greeting to Ernie (Not Bert) . If you just want to stick to one place to get your christmas hi-fi satisfaction I guarantee you that Ernie's blog IS the place. And he just promised "to start really rolling out the goodies for you". That is indeed a quite remarkable statement after the latest month's christmas audio extravaganza. Is this a miracle of Christmas or what!?

Also big thanks to those of you who sent me links and tips.

Those 2 posts have reached the end station. They will not be updated anymore. So, please do not send me more links or requests. Thanks. Now - hit the download button and get ready.


Merry Christmas!

/Z aka Sebastian